How to install and configure Zabbix 3 on Debian 8 (Jessie)

Zabbix is an enterprise open source monitoring software for networks and applications. It is designed to monitor and track the status of various network services, servers, and other network hardware. The Zabbix server can check standard networking services like HTTP, FTP, SMTP, IMAP etc. We need to install and configure a Zabbix agent for gathering data about CPU, disks, internal system process, RAM, etc.

Let's check the steps for installing and configuring Zabbix on a Debian 8 server:

Step 1: Install the required dependencies:

At the moment while writing this article, Zabbix does not provide any official pre-compiled binary package for Debian 8. We need to manually download, compile and install zabbix from the source. To perform the mentioned task, we need to install certain dependencies beforehand:

Then setup a virtual host for Zabbix and navigate to the corresponding domain. You can access the Zabbix frontend now.
Install the frontend using the necessary settings. Finally, after installing Zabbix, use the default credentials as given below:

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